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LOMBARD SCHOOL.—annibal cakacce. 77
Mason, in his lines, translated from the poem,
De Arie Graphica, proceeds :—
“ From all their charms combined, with happy toil
Did Annibal compose his wondrous style:
O’er the fair fraud so close a veil is thrown,
That every borrow’d grace becomes his own.”
Annibal was by nature endowed with the genius
of a painter, Ludovico perceived it at an early
period, and he gave much of his attention to cul-
tivate the promising talents of his younger cousin.
Endowed with more talent, and energy, than
Agostino, Annibal appears to have sought the
difficulties of the art, only for the glory of sur-
mounting them ; and, animated by the fire of an
enthusiastic imagination, he grasped at a grandeur
of style which less vigorous minds were incapable
of reaching.
Having visited Parma by the recommendation
of Ludovico, he attached himself to the study of
the works of Correggio and of Parmegiano, and
from a deep reflection on the productions of these
great masters, he acquired that boldness of design,
that admirable choice in the turn of his figures,
the manner of giving those great and simple folds
to his draperies, and that daring variety of fore-
shortening, for which his own works afterwards
became so justly admired, but which in truth he
had originally drawn from the cupolas of Parma.
Mason, in his lines, translated from the poem,
De Arie Graphica, proceeds :—
“ From all their charms combined, with happy toil
Did Annibal compose his wondrous style:
O’er the fair fraud so close a veil is thrown,
That every borrow’d grace becomes his own.”
Annibal was by nature endowed with the genius
of a painter, Ludovico perceived it at an early
period, and he gave much of his attention to cul-
tivate the promising talents of his younger cousin.
Endowed with more talent, and energy, than
Agostino, Annibal appears to have sought the
difficulties of the art, only for the glory of sur-
mounting them ; and, animated by the fire of an
enthusiastic imagination, he grasped at a grandeur
of style which less vigorous minds were incapable
of reaching.
Having visited Parma by the recommendation
of Ludovico, he attached himself to the study of
the works of Correggio and of Parmegiano, and
from a deep reflection on the productions of these
great masters, he acquired that boldness of design,
that admirable choice in the turn of his figures,
the manner of giving those great and simple folds
to his draperies, and that daring variety of fore-
shortening, for which his own works afterwards
became so justly admired, but which in truth he
had originally drawn from the cupolas of Parma.